Attila Tassi (1^st fastest): “I am very happy with the result, considering both the team and the car are new to me, but we are working well since the beginning of the weekend and we are progressing in the right direction.”

James Nash (10^th fastest): “I am struggling a bit, I must say… We are not where we should be, and can’t really understand why. We’ll continue to work, but it is going to be a difficult qualifying this afternoon.”

Gianni Morbidelli (11^th fastest): “It’s all going well, we are working on the set-up of the car, and still trying to understand it. It’s all new, so we are discovering, but the feeling is good.”

Dušan Borković (14^th fastest): “It’s basically the first time I am driving the Alfa and can’t really come to terms with it. It’s proving difficult for me to adapt to the car, it’s a little bit worrying, because it never happened to me in the past when getting into a new car…”